Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 20:53:34 +0000
From: Mike Altimore <ccmike@stmarytx.edu>
Subject: Re: directory identifiers
To: in@"holstege@kset.com"
Cc: in@"www-html@w3.org"
Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960515205334.0066584c@stmarytx.edu>
>Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 19:09:06 +0000
>To: holstege@kset.com
>From: Mike Altimore <ccmike@stmarytx.edu>
>Subject: Re: directory identifiers
>Cc: in%"www=html@w3.org"
>
>
>>
>>You're not the stupid one, Microsoft is. The specification is very clear
>>that "/" is the path separator, not "\". If it doesn't work that way in
>>Internet Explorer, then Internet Explorer is broken. Before concluding
>>that IE is hopelessly broken try this:
>>
>> (1) put in the closing quote
>> (2) try the "./" form
>> (3) put in a BASE tag
>>
>>Are you viewing these by opening them as a local file or by referring to
>>a server that is running on your local machine. If the former, then
>>"/images/foobar.gif" refers to something in a directory called "images" off
>>the root directory (i.e. C:\IMAGES). If the latter then "/images/foobar.gif"
>>refers most likely to some directory called "images" that is a subdirectory
>>of the webserver root (although the webserver could map it anywhere).
>>Then the reason the ".\images\foobar.gif" works has nothing to do with path
>>separators and has everything to do with the fact that you are accessing a
>>subdirectory of the current directory (or the BASE directory, if that has
>>been set). I suspect this is the case.
>>
>>
>> -- Mary
>> Holstege@kset.com
>>
>>
>>Mary Holstege, PhD
>>Manager, Online Engineering
>>KnowledgeSet Corporation
>>555 Ellis Street Tel: (415) 254-5452
>>Mountain View, CA 94043 FAX: (415) 254-5451
>>
>>
>I am pulling the document up as a local file. Thanks for the <base> tag info.
>I will try that.
>
>BTW, thanks for telling me about the " that I forgot. That was a mistype in
>my e-mail and not my documents.
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Mike
>